Success stories

What has Reading The Game achieved?

Listed below are some of the outputs that RTG has delivered since it was established in 2002. RTG has:

• Linked with over 50 football clubs from all leagues, in multiple projects, which use the motivational power of sport to encourage reading and literacy
• Helped create over 130 Reading Champions from the world of professional football to act as reading role models
• Helped over 12,000 children to choose and keep more than 30,000 free books
• Brought the benefits of storytelling, delivered by football role models, to nearly 30,000 children
• Created a football-based DVD designed to promote reading which has been provided free to all state schools and public libraries in England
• Produced reading promotion posters featuring football Reading Champions
• Created football-based literacy activities for practitioners
• Conducted numerous training sessions and workshops for a variety of practitioners across the country

Talk To Your Baby successes:

• 23Feb2010
  Talk To Your Baby provides thousands with resources

  Talk To Your Baby has 32 resources for parents and practitioners which are downloaded, on average, over 7,000 times each week.